OCTOBER 21, 2024Peter Anderson, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, has been named to Variety's 2024 Music Legal Elite, a list of "top attorneys who rock showbiz."

Over more than four decades, Anderson has represented record labels, music publishers, recording and performing artists, and others in a range of intellectual property matters, including copyright infringement, breach of contract, unfair competition, and trademark matters, in trial and appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

Variety particularly noted Anderson's recent victory on behalf of Cher in a high-stakes, cutting-edge royalty dispute with the widow of Sonny Bono, and his successful representation of Sam Smith and Normani, for whom he won dismissal of a copyright challenge to the 2019 hit "Dancing With a Stranger."

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